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    Gluten Free for Life

    Emily K. Abel

    A groundbreaking exploration of celiac disease, a serious autoimmune condition that affects approximately three million Americans, or 1 percent of the population

    The manifestations of celiac disease-including anemia, gastrointestinal problems…

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    Gluten Free for Life

    Emily K. Abel

    A groundbreaking exploration of celiac disease, a serious autoimmune condition that affects approximately three million Americans, or 1 percent of the population

    The manifestations of celiac disease-including anemia, gastrointestinal problems…

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    Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative

    Emily K. Abel

    A Los Angeles civic leader at the turn of the 20th century, Willard is well known to historians of the West, but exclusively for his public life as a reformer…

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    Who Cares for the Elderly?: Public Policy and the Experiences of Adult Daughters

    Emily K. Abel

    Although caregiving is predominantly women’s work, care for the elderly is largely absent from the feminist agenda in this country. This book presents a compelling and sensitive report that describes…

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    Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles

    Emily K. Abel

    Shows how the association of the disease with tramps during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary measures against both groups. This work provides…

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    Elder Care in Crisis: How the Social Safety Net Fails Families

    Emily K. Abel

    Drawing partly from an online support group for dementia caregivers, this book demonstrates that this country faces an elder care crisis. Our elder care system rests on the exploitation of…

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    Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue

    Emily K. Abel

    Offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by Emily Abel’s own experiences as a cancer survivor. With her engaging and informative style, Abel…

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    Elder Care in Crisis: How the Social Safety Net Fails Families

    Emily K. Abel

    Drawing partly from an online support group for dementia caregivers, this book demonstrates that this country faces an elder care crisis. Our elder care system rests on the exploitation of…

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    Prelude to Hospice: Listening to Dying Patients and Their Families

    Emily K. Abel

    Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into…

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    Prelude to Hospice: Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families

    Emily K. Abel

    Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily Abel provides insight into several important issues…

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    Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940

    Emily K. Abel

    Abel offers a groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years.

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    Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue

    Emily K. Abel

    Offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by Emily Abel’s own experiences as a cancer survivor. With her engaging and informative style, Abel…

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    Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women’s Lives

    Explores the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly.

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    After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors

    Emily K. Abel,Saskia K. Subramanian

    Contains portraits of more than seventy women who are living with the aftermath of breast cancer. This book features breast-cancer survivors who step out of the shadows and speak compellingly…

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    Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women’s Lives

    Explores the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly.

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    Limited Choices: Mable Jones, a Black Children’s Nurse in a Northern White Household

    Emily K. Abel,Margaret K. Nelson

    Documents the slow progress of change for many African Americans in the South, explores the still little-known experiences of Black household workers in the suburban North, and reconstructs the textured…

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    After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors

    Emily K. Abel,Saskia K. Subramanian

    Chronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating symptoms that plague some breast-cancer survivors long after their treatments have officially ended. This book is filled…

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    The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps

    Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson

    Although summer camps profoundly impact children, they have received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm & Wilderness (F&W) camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb, resembled most…

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    The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps

    Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson

    Although summer camps profoundly impact children, they have received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm & Wilderness (F&W) camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb, resembled most…

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    The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America

    Emily K. Abel (Professor Emerita, UCLA School of Public Health)

    A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in…

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    Living in Death’s Shadow: Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss

    Emily K. Abel (Professor Emerita, UCLA School of Public Health)

    Living in Death’s Shadow is essential reading for everyone seeking to understand what it means to live with someone suffering from a chronic, fatal condition, including cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer’s, and…

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    The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America

    Emily K. Abel (Professor Emerita, UCLA School of Public Health)

    A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in…

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